Thought this was a nice little piece; I heard it on the radio on Friday. It's better listened to than read. (Yes, it is NPR.) It's hard to remember sometimes that America that's not captured by the CNN crawl.

"...when we couldn't take the boring highway that unrolled like the crawl on CNN for thousands of dull infinities, we took the smaller roads in the interior of the United States of Amnesia and found many forgotten Americas; some forgotten already one hundred years ago, some forgotten 50 years ago, some forgotten five years ago, some just forgotten. ..."